About four weeks back the children and I read from The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. The book is an anthology of classic children's tales. Some of them we were very familiar with and others we had never heard of. We ended up reading The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard and Puss in Boots. Now these are not the watered down Disney type tales you might be thinking of when you hear these titles. They are the real deal unabridged unedited versions. Some of the endings were quite gruesome. Keep that in mind if you want to give this book a try and you have a child that is sensitive to things like that. Beware! But even with the surprises in the story line the children truly enjoyed this one.
I used this a narration exercise. I would read aloud the stories to the younger two and then they would practice orally narrating the story back to me. They are new to narration and I find that short stories like fairy tales, myth, legends, and fables are the easiest to start out on.They did a coloring sheet after they narrated the story and glued it into there composition notebook. Kinetic Kid(7yr old) read the stories aloud to me cause he needs some extra practice reading aloud and then he did an oral narration and then I had him write his narration down in his notebook. He got to color a page as well. The first written narration he did was like pulling teeth but by the time we got to last story we read which was Bluebeard he was literally running out of room on the page. I was so proud. Mecca the Great(10yr old) read the story independently and did a written narration in her notebook which she read aloud to me after she was done. She is blooming into a very good writer. Now the thing with her is that she gives every single detail when she writes. Which I guess is not a bad thing cause when she starts to edit more she will having something to work with when she starts to widdle stuff down a bit.
When we read Little Red Riding Hood I also too the opportunity to read to them Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young. We did a venn diagram comparison chart for there notebooks on the two stories. We also observed that all the stories seemed to have a main female character that was facing harm.
After we finished reading the stories for the week I hunted down movie versions of each story on Cable, Netflix, and Amazon Prime and we had a Friday Movie Fun Fest. It was awesome!
Here are the printables we used with this book:
The Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
Lon Po Po Venn Diagram
Puss in Boots
Bluebeard ( This one is just an encyclopedia image that I printed out and let them color)
I used this a narration exercise. I would read aloud the stories to the younger two and then they would practice orally narrating the story back to me. They are new to narration and I find that short stories like fairy tales, myth, legends, and fables are the easiest to start out on.They did a coloring sheet after they narrated the story and glued it into there composition notebook. Kinetic Kid(7yr old) read the stories aloud to me cause he needs some extra practice reading aloud and then he did an oral narration and then I had him write his narration down in his notebook. He got to color a page as well. The first written narration he did was like pulling teeth but by the time we got to last story we read which was Bluebeard he was literally running out of room on the page. I was so proud. Mecca the Great(10yr old) read the story independently and did a written narration in her notebook which she read aloud to me after she was done. She is blooming into a very good writer. Now the thing with her is that she gives every single detail when she writes. Which I guess is not a bad thing cause when she starts to edit more she will having something to work with when she starts to widdle stuff down a bit.
When we read Little Red Riding Hood I also too the opportunity to read to them Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young. We did a venn diagram comparison chart for there notebooks on the two stories. We also observed that all the stories seemed to have a main female character that was facing harm.
After we finished reading the stories for the week I hunted down movie versions of each story on Cable, Netflix, and Amazon Prime and we had a Friday Movie Fun Fest. It was awesome!
Here are the printables we used with this book:
The Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
Lon Po Po Venn Diagram
Puss in Boots
Bluebeard ( This one is just an encyclopedia image that I printed out and let them color)
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